Thespesia

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Malvaceae

• Scientific Name

  Thespesia

• Description

  Description - Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, entire or merely angulately lobed, commonly ample, usually cordate, petioled. Flowers perfect, showy. Involucel of 3-5 narrow deciduous bractlets. Calyx truncate or nearly so. Petals 5. Ovary sessile, 5-eelled; styles 5, united or rarely distinct; stigmas decurrent on the styles. Ovules few in each cavity. Capsule firm, woody-leathery, 5- celled, indehiseent. Seeds glabrous or pubescent. [Greek, marvellous.] About 8 tropical species, the following typical.